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  2. FDP-1460

CLONE [ovn25.09 fast-datapath-rhel-9] - ovn-northd incremental processing - handle ACL creation/deletion

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      Given a system administrator managing a network with ovn-northd,

      When an ACL is created or deleted,

      Then, the ovn-northd incremental processing should handle the ACL change without triggering a full lflow recompute. Also, only the affected logical flows and meters are updated and the operation completes successfully without errors.

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      Given a system administrator managing a network with ovn-northd, When an ACL is created or deleted, Then, the ovn-northd incremental processing should handle the ACL change without triggering a full lflow recompute. Also, only the affected logical flows and meters are updated and the operation completes successfully without errors.
    • ovn25.09-25.09.0-alpha.187.el9fdp
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      Currently northd incremental processing for lflow fails when ACLs are added/removed.  The I-P node dependencies are:

      NB.ACL -> en_nb_acl -> en_lflow

      NB.ACL -> en_sync_meters -> en_lflow

      Aside from this the en_sync_meters node also gets recomputed on NB.Meter and SB.Meter changes.

      None of these dependency chains have I-P change handlers hence they all result in lflow recomputation which can be costly at scale.

              amusil@redhat.com Ales Musil
              ovnteam@redhat.com OVN Team
              Ehsan Elahi Ehsan Elahi
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